<p>What is Cornell's policy on internet usage and billing? I searched for an answer, but Cornell's web page has several different billing policies and I have no idea which will be applicable to me as an entering Freshman next year.</p>
<p>Basically...</p>
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<li>Is there a bandwidth limit? If I buy a single game on Steam, it's a 5-10GB download...</li>
<li>What are the overage fees if there is a limit?</li>
<li>Which is faster/recommended, wired or wireless?</li>
<li>Are wired and wireless subject to the same billing policy?</li>
</ol>
<p>You check how much bandwidth you use (RedRover/Wifi & LAN/Ethernet) here: nubb.cornell.edu</p>
<p>You get 20 GB per month.
You can go to computer labs and download stuff without charging the bandwidth to your name by using the computers there.
You can download a game using the lab computers and put it on a flash drive or something.
Sometimes I see glitchy wireless modems, so I prefer wired, though the wireless is meant for portability and is everywhere in your dorm and in some classrooms/campus. Plus if you’re gaming, use lan, it’s more stable.
Wired and Wireless is the same billing. So the sum of their total goes into your bandwidth usage.
It is $0.0015/MB if you go over 20 GB.
If you decide to bring your own Wireless Modem and connect it through a ethernet jack, anything using that modem will still count towards the bandwidth limit.</p>
<p>Okay, 20GB is more than enough; and any overage is just basically $15 extra per 10GB. I can live with that.</p>
<p>I was just worried because some of the older posts I had read set the bandwidth at 5GB with a higher overage rate.</p>
<p>They recently have been upping the cap the past couple of years. It was 15 GB last year, and 10 GB just a few years b4 that, and 5 GB well before that in the same decade.</p>
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<p>So, if it is only $0.0015/MB, then it’s a dollar per GB after 20 GB?
Wow, I think I might be able to afford that!</p>
<p>The limit has been going up every year. My freshman year it was 10GB/mo and last year it was 15. Now it’s up to 20.</p>